Programs
- Agrarian Landscapes in Transition
- AHIS (Arizona Hydrological Information System)
- Arizona Water Institute
- CAP LTER (Central Arizona–Phoenix LTER)
- Decision Center for a Desert City
- Decision Theater
- Ecology Explorers
- Greater Phoenix 2100
- Integrated Analysis of Robustness in Dynamic Socioecological Systems
- IGERT in Urban Ecology
- Legacies on the Landscape
- Long-Term Coupled Socioecological Change in the American SW and N Mexico
- Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics
- National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations for Urban Climate and Energy
- 100 Cities Project
- Service at Salado
- SEINet (Southwest Environmental Information Network)
- Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research & Policy
- Sustainability Partnership
- UGEC (Urbanization and Global Environmental Change)
Stop . . . Think for a moment about that item you just tossed in the trash. Often it is a cup, lid, straw, or plastic bag that you used only once, for a short period of time, then tossed “away” to some unknown place called a landfill. Fast-food restaurants buy them by the gross for customers who then dispose of them in the trash. Then the restaurant wraps them all up in a bigger plastic bag and hauls them to the dumpster. 
In 1945, in the blinding light of the first nuclear test at White Sands, N.M., physicist Robert Oppenheimer recalled the words of Vishnu, from the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.”